That makes sense. And that way you're splitting the cost of the plane and can build your hours at half the cost? Or get twice the time, up until minimums required to get your RATP. What I'm wondering is if they're trying to charge full amounts when you're really splitting it in half.

Not saying they're shady, but could see a shady school trying to charge PSA 4 hours of plane rental for Mark and 4 hours for John when they flew those 4 hours together.